[Samba] LDAP+samba dc docs

[Bart Hendrix]

Hans,

If you are using red hat you can also install the dependencies as rpm from: 
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/packages.php

Greetz Bart

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at Samba.Org>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] LDAP+samba dc docs


> Hans,
>
> What version of Samba are you using?
>
> What version of the Idealx scripts are you using? Where did you obtain it?
>
> To update your Perl you need to be on-line and then run:
>
> perl -MCPAN -e shell
>
> Follow the initialization process and then when you get a prompt execute:
>
> install net::ldap::ldif
>
> when that finishes, execute:
>
> install Crypt::SmbHash
>
>
> That should then have meet all dependencies for the Idealx scripts.
>
> The version of the Idealx scripts must match the version of Samba you are
> using because there have been a number of schema changes over the 3.x 
> series.
>
> - John T.
>
>
>
>
> On Friday 07 January 2005 03:39, Hans du Plooy wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Thanks for your help and congrats on a great book - it's the best
>> samba/ldap info I've seen so far!
>>
>> I have gone through all the relevant stuff, but I'm getting stuck on the
>> LDAP database initialisation.  With the smbldap tools I get a error that 
>> I
>> thought had something to do with a missing perl module (net::ldap::ldif 
>> or
>> something like that) - I downloaded and installed that, and managed to
>> break my perl in the process, so I can't get that particular message 
>> again.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I looked at the "Alternative LDAP Database Initialization"
>> section in Appendix 5, assembled the script (I had trouble with it too 
>> but
>> managed to edit it to work).  Now, trying out the line:
>>
>> ncshans:/home/hansdp/ldap-setup # slapadd -c -v -l NEWINGTONCS.ldif
>>
>> gives me:
>>
>> slapadd: could not add entry dn="dc=newingtoncs,dc=co,dc=za" (line=8):
>> already exists
>> slapadd: could not parse entry (line=70)
>>
>> I'm not sure about the first error, but regarding the second one, line 70
>> looks like:
>>
>> objectClass: sambaGroupMapping
>>
>> I googled around and this seems to be a problem with whitespaces, mostly,
>> but I checked every line.
>>
>> Any idea why this is causing trouble?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards
>> Hans du Plooy
>> Newington Consulting Services
>> hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
>
> -- 
> John H Terpstra
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